The month of May is traditionally chosen in order to heighten everyone’s awareness towards the role of cardiovascular diseases as a cause of illness and death in Portugal. These diseases may be prevented, namely by delaying their appearing in each person’s life cycle. The main preventive measures are "simple" and cost little, which is very important at a time – such as that we are going through – of serious financial and economic crisis on a world level. It is therefore essential for us to: 1) not smoke; 2) control our blood pressure (ideally within values of 120/80); 3) watch our weight so as not go beyond 25 as a body mass index; 4) practice regular and ideally daily physical exercise; 5) have a healthy and varied diet, with a predominance of vegetables and fruits, avoiding salt, sugar